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...battles from the Baltic to Sevastopol, plus superb shots of activities behind the Russian front. Lacking propaganda-as-such, June 13th may prove to be the most convincing report to date of the terrible determination of the Russian fight. To get scenes the government sent out 160 cameramen. Twenty lost their lives...
Most of the shots were made by Russian cameramen accompanying the Soviet troops who pushed the Germans away from Moscow last winter. Their work makes a bitter, revealing, angry document. It shows, where words fail, the enormous physical impetus required to get a military offensive going in the paralyzing cold of the Russian winter. It also shows, by acres of matériel that the retreating Germans left behind, that their withdrawal was by no means strategic...
Some of the photography is spectacularly good. One of the 15 cameramen who made the film accompanied a paratroop division on an attack behind the German lines. It is all there, from the white-robed troops bailing out of their transport planes to the mopping up of their village objective. The shots of direct shell hits on Soviet tanks, of skiborne infantry dropping like dead birds before Nazi rifle and machine-gun fire, are as close to the front lines as movie-goers can safely...
Moscow Strikes Back is also the best newsreel yet made of Russians. For once, the cameramen's equipment is good enough to show Russians as they are, not as they have generally been shown: blurred figures on a scratchy film...
Life Magazine, which first caught the Big Three "bug" with its portrayal of "Life" at Harvard last May, continued its Ivy League habits during the past two weeks in an invasion of Old Eli's cloistered walls. Life's peering cameramen, living up to their "nothing sacred" reputation won in Cambridge last year, when they featured Langdon P. Marvin '41 doing his setting-up exercises, looked into all phases of Eli existence from the individual Yale Man's daily life to the university's part in the War Program...